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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2007) 34 (2): 217–238.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Ban Wang Duke University Press 2007 Discovering Enlightenment in Chinese History:
The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, by Wang Hui
Ban Wang
The past has no voice: it exists as habits, institutions, artifacts...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2011) 38 (2): 155–187.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Ruth Y. Y. Hung The production, consumption, and state control of Chinese TV serial drama can be seen as an instrument of power and profit maximization as well as a medium for mass education and homogenization in the form of popular culture. The serial drama Woju 蜗居 (Dwelling narrowness) (2009...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2019) 46 (2): 93–120.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Wang Xiaoming; Lennet Daigle In the last decades of the nineteenth century, the earliest of the modern Chinese revolutionaries were looking beyond the creation of a new polity to the creation of a new kind of person and new ways of living together. At a moment when the political legacy...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2007) 34 (3): 61–86.
Published: 01 August 2007
...Jiwei Ci Duke University Press 2007 What Is in the Cloud? A Critical Engagement with
Thomas Metzger on “The Clash between Chinese and
Western Political Theories”
Jiwei Ci
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A menacing cloud hangs across...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (2): 157–186.
Published: 01 May 2017
.... This essay makes clear how colonial activities, including employing anthropological knowledge as a tool of control, were often legitimized by the state and the intellectual as efforts of “nation building.” The legacy of Chinese colonialism of the frontier—as well as its continuing impact—is reflected...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 263–292.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Jason McGrath In Chinese performance arts, one thing that was largely abandoned in the shift from traditional drama to motion pictures was the suppositionality of Chinese operatic performance, and the transition to digital cinema, particularly in the case of big‐budget blockbusters that compete...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (3): 149–172.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Fang-chih Irene Yang Chinese Drama, a new genre produced for the Chinese language market (with China as the center), while rhetorically legitimized through Taiwanese economic nationalism, has to negotiate the divisions between Chineseness and Taiwaneseness aesthetically, expressed through...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2019) 46 (2): 209–217.
Published: 01 May 2019
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2019) 46 (2): 139–162.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and threatened to destroy the institutional foundation of the party-state. Seeking to remedy the virtual absence of a historically grounded understanding of the legacy of Chinese socialism in the contemporary discussions of “capitalism with Chinese characteristics,” this essay argues that how we understand...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2011) 38 (1): 165–201.
Published: 01 February 2011
... or nationalities, religions, and even civilizations, which is also intertwined with the concept of trans-societal system. For example, the tributary system in Chinese history is not only a mode of contact in a trans-systemic society but also a form of network in the trans-societal system. It links various...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 83–84.
Published: 01 November 2021
... on a chain gang, or the hum of tractors on a Midwest farm. It is a poetry created by ear and on the fly. Li Zhimin is a poet and scholar in both English and Chinese. Our long conversations about poetry have taken place in China and the United States, and, against all rational expectations, we have...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2008) 35 (2): 157–182.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Yu Keping © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Unless otherwise indicated, all translations are my own. The Developmental Logic of Chinese Culture
under Modernization and Globalization
Yu Keping
Globalization...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2008) 35 (2): 107–124.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Shaobo Xie; Fengzhen Wang Chinese Education in the Era of Capitalist Globalization
Shaobo Xie and Fengzhen Wang
After a long century of revolution and war, the Chinese seem to have
totally resigned themselves to the reign of capitalist globalization...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2008) 35 (2): 183–206.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Chu Yiu-Wai The Importance of Being Chinese:
Orientalism Reconfigured in the Age of Global Modernity
Chu Yiu-Wai
In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
—Oscar Wilde...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2008) 35 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Arif Dirlik © 2006 Reprinted by permission of Monumenta Serica Institute. 2006 Timespace, Social Space, and the Question of Chinese Culture
Arif Dirlik
I take up in what follows the general theme of the dimensions...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2011) 38 (2): 125–153.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Gloria Davies What do we mean by “Chinese thought,” and how should we engage with it? This essay begins with the claim that sixiang , or “Chinese thought,” is best approached as both a mode of critical inquiry and a style of rhetorical persuasion. It argues that Lu Xun's reflections on baihua...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (3): 19–60.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Arif Dirlik Postmodernism and Chinese History
Arif Dirlik
This essay considers questions raised by postmodernism with spe-
cific reference to issues in the historiography of China. If I spend more time
working through...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2011) 38 (2): 39–62.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Lu Xun “Po e'sheng lun” (Toward a refutation of malevolent voices) is an essay from the formative period of the famous Chinese writer Lu Xun (1881-1936), penned in Tokyo in the classical Chinese language, and first published in December of 1908 (issue no. 8 of Henan , a soon-to-be-banned journal...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 57–90.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Gloria Davies In engaging with Chinese perceptions of human rights, we must first consider how the human is understood in Chinese. The Confucian idea of the human as synonymous with benevolence is a morally exacting one. Across the centuries, it has found articulation in the enduring demand...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2011) 38 (1): 135–163.
Published: 01 February 2011
... of individuals' freedom and welfare underlay struggles for political power as well as for socioeconomic rights in the Chinese Revolution. The Chinese Revolution is fundamentally a rights struggle against the infringement of rights—traditional, territorial, property, and socioeconomic rights—by imperialist powers...
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